Design Engineer

Design Engineer
4 day week Monday to Friday
Up to £40,000 DOE
Cradley Heath

SF Engineering are recruiting for a Design Engineer with a strong emphasis in Solidworks Design to join our established engineering client based in Cradley Heath.

Ideal attributes
- 1 year or more of experience in a similar Design / Mechanical / Production/Project Engineering position
- Strong organisation, client facing and project management skills
- Previous experience within the forging industry
- Experience with 2D and 3D CAD
- Knowledge of forging / machining techniques
- Degree / HNC / HND / BTEC / NVQ qualified in Mechanical/Production Engineering or similar
- Proven ability to drive Engineering development
- Good mathematical and general engineering knowledge
- The ability to understand system requirements
- Be self-motivated with excellent attention to detail
- Have excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Required to generate all cad models and associated drawing for both the products and tooling. Internal machining of dies and tools will be required to be generated, with setup and tooling sheets. (cnc programs).

Lathe programs ,setup and first off will be required before passing to operator

Manufacture of all tooling would be your responsibility, sourcing materials and subcontract requirements, progressing thro to completion.

New job quotations, which will include simulation of product (Qform), and costing. Liaison with the customer will also be required. As part of new product introduction, all parts will need to be setup on Progress our production system, including routing, material estimation , ordering of materials. Plus sampling the product through to first production run. You would be responsible for both control and update of drawing/ product information, within the production system.

Use / knowledge of the following software would be preferred
- Solidworks
- HyperMill
- QForm
- ProgressPlus
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project

Key deliverables are:
- Develop CNC programmes, processes and methods to meet manufacturing requirements;
- Own the configuration of all supporting process elements including production routings, tooling, gauges, test equipment, and work holding;
- Determine materials and tooling needed in order to achieve manufacturing goals according to product specification;
- Responsible for ensuring that projects undertaken fall within budget and allocated timescale;
- Support the development of documentation to enhance process control;
- Ongoing research into emerging manufacturing and production technology to compliment current and future business strategies.